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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
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In-Reply-To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
       "Re: AMD K6" (Jul 14,  4:59pm)
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To: dg@root.com, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
Subject: Re: AMD K6
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} >First, I found that AMD apparantly has a one-year warranty on the K6, not a
} >30 day warranty.  So Jordan... you should be able to replace the CPU.
} 
}    This contradicts what several suppliers have told me. Basically, AMD has
} a 25 day warranty on the parts to suppliers and all warranty claims must be
} made to the supplier, not to AMD. It would be great if this turns out to be
} wrong.
} 

If it's turning out to be a widespread problem then implied warranties
and such should override a short stated warranty.

And if AMD wants to remain in the processor business they'll ignore
their warranty while the chips are still green.  They are one of the
under-dogs after all.

No sense sitting back and expecting the worst.


Richard